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Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - D-Rod - 11-27-2007
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203975
Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests, regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer, says Devil Mountain Software.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
November 27, 2007 11:49 AM
In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s newest operating system.
Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests -- and Vista, even after it's been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.
"The hoped for performance fixes [from Vista SP1] that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized," said Devil Mountain researchers, in a blog post summarizing their results.
The researchers compared patched and unpatched versions of Vista and XP running Microsoft Office on a dual-core Dell notebook. The results revealed the time taken to complete Office productivity tasks such as the creation of a compound document and presentation materials.
Devil Mountain researchers ran a mix of tests comparing existing versions of the operating systems -- the original Vista and XP SP2 -- and versions that had been patched with the latest updates -- Vista SP1 beta and XP SP3 beta. Tests were also run on machines with 1 Gbyte and 2 Gbytes of memory.
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests -- regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer. In fact, XP proved to be roughly twice as fast as Vista in most of the tests.
Re: Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - M A V I C - 11-27-2007
They obviously didn't run any of the tests where Vista is faster or otherwise performs better... or even try to. Not that there are many cases of that, but to not even try...
Re: Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - brianlmoon - 11-28-2007
I found this to be an interesting opinion.
http://codelemur.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/benchmarking-vista-and-xp-apples-and-oranges/
Re: Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - D-Rod - 11-28-2007
Yes, it does make a lot of sense. But isn't Leopard supposed to be a bit faster than Tiger and Tiger a bit faster than Panther?
Re: Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - Mr645 - 11-28-2007
You really want to see speed? Load up Windows 3.1
Talk about smokin' fast.
Re: Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show - Robo - 11-28-2007
I recently got a cube G4 450 and booted into OS9. It's amazing how snappy it feels compared for my DP G5 running Leopard. It's totally usable even though 7 years old.